Brent Bozell’s June 18 column is a regurgitation of an article at his MRC-operated CNSNews.com trying to create a controversy by baselessly accusing the Library of Congress of designing its exhibit on Bob Hope and politics to, in Bozell’s words, “unveil a leftist political agenda, the likes of which Bob Hope would be the first to denounce.”
But as we pointed out, CNS reporter Penny Starr provided no evidence that the exhibit is biased — even she conceded that, in addition to liberal entertainers, the exhibit also includes conservatives such as Lee Greenwood, Pat Boone and Sonny Bono. Bozell doesn’t mention that, nor does he note as Starr did that Hope became actively political during the Vietnam years; instead, Bozell insists that Hope “bent backward to keep politics out of his performances when entertaining troops.”
Further, Bozell appears to be writing about something he has not seen. There’s no indication that he went to see the exhibit himself — nearly all the details he provides are straight from Starr’s article, and nowhere does he claim that he personally saw the exhibit. Given that Bozell has previously ridiculed Attorney General Eric Holder for “insolence” and “laziness” in criticizing a bill he hadn’t read, that is quite the double standard.